Isranet Daily Briefing
Tuesday, September 3rd 2024
IDF or CENTCOM? Who Runs the Show in Israel’s Military: Itay Ilnai, Israel Hayom, Sept. 1, 2024 How the Israeli Intelligence Community Got Its Mojo Back: Marc Polymeropoulos, Atlantic Council, Aug. 27, 2024 Another One-Day War? What the Latest Hezbollah-Israel Clash Reveals About Deterrence and Escalation: Ben Fishman, Hanin Ghaddar, Assaf Orion and Dennis Ross, Washington Institute […]
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Colonel (res.) Prof. Gabi Siboni JISS, Aug. 22, 2024 “Hamas’ control over humanitarian aid gives it breathing room and maintains its influence and power among the population.” After ten months of fighting, many ask why Hamas has not yet been destroyed yet?, and the full achievement of the war’s objectives has yet to be realized. […]
Friday, August 9th 2024
SHABBAT READING The Opening Of Devarim: A Recounting or Different Version of the Wilderness Experience?: Dr. Rabbi Zev Farber, The Torah.com, July 1, 2013 — Where does the book of Deuteronomy begin? This may seem like a simple question—surely a book starts at chapter 1 verse 1! But Deuteronomy turns out to be more complicated than […]
Thursday, August 8th 2024
Nils A. Haug Gatestone Institute, Aug. 7, 2024 “The administration has embargoed and slow-walked weapons transfers to Israel to prevent it from defeating Hamas or moving to offense against Hezbollah.” “They are fighting like lions in these alleys, under constant threat. They are heroes. This is not a simple war,” recalled Lt. Col. Almog Rotem, a […]
Wednesday, August 7th 2024 / Wednesday, August 7th 2024
OFFENSE MEASURES It’s Not a Border. It’s a Front.: Brig. Gen. (res.) Eran Ortal, BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,290, Aug. 5, 2024 — Israel’s traditional security concept consisted of a defensive strategy based on mainly offensive tactics. ‘Allah Vult’: Sinwar’s Hamas between Islamist Messianism and Hardline Convictions – Analysis: Ohad Merlin, Jerusalem Post, Aug. 7, 2024 –– On […]
Wednesday, August 7th 2024
Professor Efraim Inbar JISS, Aug. 4, 2024 “Attrition warfare is the best outcome for the population-centric Iranian strategy and the worst possible scenario for Israel.” Governments in many capitals of the world have repeatedly expressed apprehensions about escalation of the Gaza conflict and Hezbollah’s war of attrition against Israel. They fear greater violence, more casualties and […]
Seth J. Frantzman The National Interest, July 31, 2024 “It was Haniyeh who led Gaza down the road of becoming a springboard for ever-larger attacks on Israel.” Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Iran on July 31. Haniyeh was one of the most well-known faces of Hamas in the region. Ever since he took over […]
Tuesday, August 6th 2024
Tony Badran Tablet, July 31, 2024 “The Obama team sees Jewish sovereignty as a destabilizing factor in the regional arrangement with Iran, which therefore must be constrained, if not out outright abolished.” According to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Israel has “effectively lost sovereignty” over the north of its own country thanks to […]
Friday, August 2nd 2024 / Friday, August 2nd 2024
SHABBAT READING Natural or Supernatural?: Matot, Masei • 5771, 5784: Covenant & Conversation, The Rabbi Sacks Legacy — The book of Bamidbar draws to a close with an account of the cities of refuge, the six cities – three on each side of the Jordan – set apart as places to which people found innocent of murder, but guilty of manslaughter, were […]
Friday, August 2nd 2024
Jake Wallis Simons The Telegraph, July 31, 2024 “The Iranians are boxed in. The law of the region dictates that they will need to mount a response. But dare they provoke Netanyahu further?” Since October 7, Israel has had one geostrategic imperative: to reinstate deterrence. In the Middle East – and increasingly in Ukraine and […]
Monday, July 22nd 2024
Amir Bohbot Jerusalem Post, July 21, 2024 “After consolidating all Hamas infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, based on what we saw in maps and documents and what was actually discovered, it is clear that Gaza was constructed as one large military base, including the use of kindergartens, schools, clinics, hospitals, and mosques. They intended to […]
John Spencer Newsweek, July 19, 2024 “If the diplomats fail to demilitarize Hamas, the brutal war is likely to resume—this time spilling out to southern Lebanon as well, where Hezbollah is also ready to fight from underground strongholds.” This week, Israel very likely killed the long-time head of Hamas‘s military, Mohammed Dief, with multiple 2,000-pound […]
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